I was planning on publishing this post on Thursday, because my number-of-weeks-pregnant flips over one higher each Thursday, but life got a bit in my way.  As in, being pregnant makes me tired and lazy , and then there were large storms and tornado watches and warnings, and we ended up staying with my grandparents for a while because THEY have a basement and WE don’t

But… they have NO INTERNET.  So I couldn’t blog, couldn’t Twitter, couldn’t Plurk, couldn’t even email or IM or read other peoples’ blogs.  I had to REST and VISIT WITH PEOPLE and GO FOR WALKS.  It was nice!

The format I’m planning for these weekly pregnancy updates is something along these lines: I’ll be yammering about what I wanted to eat that didn’t agree with me, how much weight I maybe gained, why I don’t want to take any photos of myself yet, and how I’m avoiding telling any family yet that I’m pregnant.  Obviously the content will change weekly (hopefully), but I’m going to work at bringing the funny.  Because what the blogosphere needs is MORE FUNNY PREGNANT WOMEN.  Yes?  Are you with me?  Good!

What I ate last week (and some of the week before) that turned out to be a bad idea:

• Two double cheeseburgers from McDonald’s House of Greasy Food & Fry Emporium. (Because two days earlier, the quarter pounder had really hit the spot.)
• Two and a half grilled brats, with no bread or anything else, dipped in mustard + ketchup (I normally love these, but obviously MORE THAN ONE was a Very Bad Idea, as the heartburn and feeling of pukiness was rampant for, oh, all that night and part of the next day)
• Many many french fries (Ugh)
• Pasta salad I made with far too many taco-like seasonings. REGRET!

What I ate last week-ish that was GLORIOUS:

• Quarter pounder with cheese and a small fry, even if it only lasted for about 45 minutes of tummy peace.
• Frozen pizza
• My Mamow’s roast beef, mashed potatoes, corn, and green salad
• White cake with strawberry whipped cream (I was surprised too)
• Frozen pizza
• Deli meat sandwiches with cheddar cheese, tomatoes, cucumber, and mayo - hold the mustard
• Salty tortilla chips with salsa + sour cream
• Pancakes
• Frozen pizza

How many times I have had a ’sick day’ that keeps me from working or doing anything else productive:

Approximately 5,267 times.  (I might be slightly exaggerating.)

Number of times I have got up to pee at 3:47am, 5:02am, 7:14am, etc, etc:

Approximately 5,267 times.  (Not quite as exaggerated as one might think.)

Other stuff:

I am still trying to look like I am not pregnant.  I don’t know why, unless it’s because it seems like there is something morally wrong about LOOKING pregnant when you are not technically supposed to be showing yet.

Actually, I hate all those pregnancy guides that tell you to eat only 300 extra calories a day, snack on saltine crackers, and that you likely won’t need maternity clothes until you’re about three or four months along.  WHAT?!  Obviously they are only thinking of most first-time pregnant women, because it DID take me a long time to show with my first.  However, now that I have had three babies, my abdomen already knows what it’s supposed to do when the hormones hit, so it pooches out obediently, making my pants selection incredibly difficult and resulting in me trying on and re-trying on all my shirts to see just how fat/pregnant they really make me look.

(I think my husband is tired of me playing this silly game with myself.)

Also, we have not yet told any family other than the kids, and of course YOU, my darling internets.  I find that it is difficult to tell my relatives that I am expecting, because inevitably someone gives me the weird eye, which I always assume translates to “Oh really, and don’t you already have enough of those, what are you a rabbit?! And will you expect us to GIVE YOU STUFF again?!”  Which is really not what I want to hear from people at all.  So I am chickening out until I can’t hide it any more, I think.  This is possibly not a good plan.

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